Language Studies Of Traffic Stone Carvings In Gansu

Traffic stone carvings are stone documentary which record informations such as road construction, traffic and business dealings, with inscriptions, carved mostly. it faithfully records the changes of regulation measures, the period of transport facilities, means of transport and the evolution of traffic system and many other aspects, with a rich history, culture and language information. Gansu is the most important section of the ancient Silk Road, and distributes the amount of traffic the carved stone, becoming an indispensable historical materials of history of local traffic. In recent years, many scholars began to collecte Gansu traffic carved stone, but specific studies on stone materials are still very weak, scholars focusing on history, geography, engineering, art in terms of its value, and from the perspective of language study is more weaker, basically to explore the difficult words and correct the annotation. On the basis of the systematic collation of the stone inscription of traffic and combing research inn, passes, bridges, plank road, ferry, construction and other special classes and general traffic words, to examine the meaning of exegesis from the language point of view, analysis of the rationale, aims to Chinese Vocabularyl History provide true and reliable corpus. At the same time, providing the reference for the dictionary correction, in order to reflect the historical traffic condition in Gansu comprehensively and accurately, to make up the lack of local records of historical documents.The article is divided into three chapters, establishing two major characteristics traffic carved words research topics, namely traffic special words and common words. The former includes post, pass, road and bridge, the path along the cliff and other four categories of words; the latter consists of traffic engineering for words, engineering construction, engineering personnel words words, each kind of words below is divided into several small kinds. Mainly from the external form and semantic content description and Analysis on all kinds of words, especially the dictionaries were not included, semantic interpretation inaccurate or otherwise new words one by one in. Through the analysis of words, pay attention to the combination of its existence and the specific historical and cultural background, as complete as possible word presentation reflects the characteristics of the times and the region characteristic. The fifth chapter summarizes the characteristics of traffic stone words reflect the semantic and structure. The last chapter some que of "Chinese Dictionary" error were corrected.